The Castration Effect
Brahmacharya and the control of the senses
Six years ago, at the age of 50, I had my ovaries surgically removed just two months after a triple lumpectomy surgery for breast cancer in my left breast. Prior to those two surgeries, a fashionable tonsillectomy in 1972 at age five was the only other surgery I had ever undergone. (Is the fashionable surgery in 2024 still gallbladder removal?) Why did …
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